Optimizing for Innovation: How Hybrid IT Outsourcing Shifts IT Focus to Innovation

Download the CenturyLink executive brief "Optimizing for Innovation: How Hybrid IT Outsourcing Shifts IT Focus to Innovation” and explore how cost efficiencies can be achieved via the different elements of a Hybrid IT infrastructure outsource approach, allowing IT groups to apply more of the IT budget to innovation.

Learn how even a small percentage reduction in IT infrastructure costs can dramatically increase the funding available for innovating new applications or other initiatives critical to business success.

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Enterprise Strategy Group: “Transforming the Enterprise with a Dynamic IT Infrastructure”

Imagine an environment where business decisions drive application choices of policy, with no regard for infrastucture, where best practives are implemented based soley on business requirements - and a "guaranteed service level" means just that. The IT of the future will be an elaborate business operation unencumbered by past technology decisions, one capable of providing exact service levels to multiple constituencies while continually optimizing costs. In this environment, IT will evolve into an even more valuable "weapon" for the business, with the ability to react quickly and cost-effectively, to deliver seamless user experience and become a true digital enterprise that leverages digital technology as a competitive advantage.

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Meet Business Demands and Drive I.T. Innovation

Red Hat can help you gain control of your IT infrastructure at a lower cost. Red Hat®Enterprise Linux® and Red Hat Virtualization gives you the simplified management, military-grade security, and infrastracture flexibility you need to respond quickly to business demands now and innovate in the future. Plus, you’ll be ready for the move to the cloud when the right time comes.
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Casio Strengthens Its Core IT Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Casio set out to create and transform its business through the use of innovative IT. In doing so, the company wanted to deliver IT solutions that created business processes and contributed to effective business management. Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization has not only cut costs for Casio, but has also helped the company effectively handle business management challenges and prepare for a future cloud environment.
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Converged Solutions: Platforms for 21st Century Enterprises – PART 3

Sponsored by Dell and Intel®

This TechByte series looks into three pillars of converged solution success – speed of deployment, lowering TCO through automation and increasing flexibility through modularity – and demonstrates how your business will benefit from a converged solution approach to infrastructure.

Watch this webcast to learn:

• How virtualization has led to converged infrastructure
• How to speed deployment of new applications and services
• Why converged solutions bring overall IT costs down
• How convergence can enable powerful analytics to help drive business decisions
• What you should do now to prepare for converged solutions in your business

Intel Inside®. Powerful Data Center Outside.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Converged Solutions: Platforms for 21st Century Enterprises – PART 2

Sponsored by Dell and Intel®

This TechByte series looks into three pillars of converged solution success – speed of deployment, lowering TCO through automation and increasing flexibility through modularity – and demonstrates how your business will benefit from a converged solution approach to infrastructure.

Watch this webcast to learn:

• How virtualization has led to converged infrastructure
• How to speed deployment of new applications and services
• Why converged solutions bring overall IT costs down
• How convergence can enable powerful analytics to help drive business decisions
• What you should do now to prepare for converged solutions in your business

Intel Inside®. Powerful Data Center Outside.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Converged Solutions: Platforms for 21st Century Enterprises – PART 1

Sponsored by Dell and Intel®

This TechByte series looks into three pillars of converged solution success – speed of deployment, lowering TCO through automation and increasing flexibility through modularity – and demonstrates how your business will benefit from a converged solution approach to infrastructure.

Watch this webcast to learn:

• How virtualization has led to converged infrastructure
• How to speed deployment of new applications and services
• Why converged solutions bring overall IT costs down
• How convergence can enable powerful analytics to help drive business decisions
• What you should do now to prepare for converged solutions in your business

Intel Inside®. Powerful Data Center Outside.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe

The "2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe" is available now and there are some important insights that will inform your strategy for bringing cloud like consumption and provisioning attributes to the traditional managed hosting market.

Read the full report for an in-depth analysis of the European market for cloud-enabled managed hosting and the vendors to watch out for.

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Systems Management Getting Complicated? Consider Converged Infrastructure Solutions

One of the hidden - but deeply felt - challenges IT organizations face is systems management. As infrastructure, applications, services and workloads become more complex and intertwined, there is increased pressure on IT staffs to find ways to make systems management easier, less time consuming and more affordable. Download this paper for insights into the ways your organization can consolidate multiple management tools into a single solution.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Quick Take: Dells FX Architecture Holds Promise to Power Modern Services

Everything you need to do to apply technology, systems, and processes to win, serve, and retain customers - is built on the shoulders of infrastructure. This report reviews the underlying pressures on server architecture, introduces the Dell FX against this backdrop, and shows why it can be valuable to your future infrastructure strategy. Additionally, this report highlights the need for architects to open their lenses and consider alternatives to the standard 19-inch rack server that dominates enterprise deployments today.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Making Smart Decisions in Evaluating and Selecting a Supplier of Converged Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure is one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT industry. Integrated infrastructure “bundles” ease deployment challenges, reduce capital equipment expenses, facilitate scalability and reduce management complexity. What should IT organizations look for—and demand—in a converged infrastructure supplier? Register now and learn about the must-have capabilities and additional considerations in evaluating and selecting suppliers.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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6 Tips for Building a Future-Ready Infrastructure

Big data, mobility, compute-intensive apps, virtualization, and cloud computing tax enterprise servers. This guide prepares decision-makers to choose servers that meet their current needs, while building a flexible, reliable, scalable infrastructure to handle future requirements.

**Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.**

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Build or Buy TCO Online Tool: Colocation

When deciding whether to build or buy infrastructure, the choice is simple when the potential savings are substantial. Compare your potential 10-year costs using CenturyLink’s TCO Comparison Tool – and decide with confidence.

Calculate your data center TCO now – and see how you can:

• Reduce upfront costs

• Increase efficiency of IT staff

• Scale power, bandwidth and space on-demand

Calculate now.

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